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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hodges, Graham Russell (1946-....)
Titre(s) : David Ruggles [Texte imprimé] : a radical Black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publication : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (266 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Lien à la collection : The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Comprend : A revolutionary childhood ; An apprentice abolitionist in post-emancipation New York
City ; Making practical abolitionism ; Melding black abolitionism and the underground
railroad ; Abolitionist and physician.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was of one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most
often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell
Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer,
publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former
bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous
voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper
Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee
of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience
and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people
and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the
South. Hodges's narrative places Ruggles in the fractious politics and society of
New York, where he moved among the highest ranks of state leaders and spoke up for
common black New Yorkers. His work on the Committee of Vigilance inspired many upstate
New York and New England whites, who allied with him to form a network that became
the Underground Railroad.
Sujet(s) : Ruggles, David (1810-1849)
Underground railroad -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Relations interethniques -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807833261 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0807833266 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42253817s
Notice n° :
FRBNF42253817
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